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Ukulele update

As you know, if you have read my previous post, before Christmas, I bought myself a Ukulele and signed up to a night school course for beginners at the Quay Arts Centre in Newport.

I started to explore YouTube for lessons before going to the class, and as with most subjects on YouTube, there are some great videos and some not so great. They got me started with holding it, hand position and a couple of chords.

I have been to the night school for the last 2 weeks, and there are about 10 of us in the class. This is a good number, because if there where many more, the tutor would struggle to get round us all.

We have started off with learning to play ‘Yellow Bird’ and ‘Hush Little Baby’ and this week we have progressed to ‘Paint it Black’ and ‘Yellow Submarine’.

Its great fun and I have met some lovely people that are in the same boat as me.

I would definitely recommend either getting individual or group lessons like these, rather than going it alone.

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Good luck with your uking – it’s a great instrument to play! I recent posted a Twelve Days of Ukemas series on our PLUC site (https://lewishamukulele.wordpress.com/tag/twelve-days-of-ukemas/) – from Day Two onwards there are free beginners’ resources on most of them (as well as plenty on the rest of our website), so do have a dip into them to see if any suit you.
Happy strumming! Jeanette